Music: LADY SOUL SINGING IT LIKE IT IS

HAS it got soul? Man, that's the question of the hour. If it has soul,
then it's tough, beautiful, out of sight. It passes the test of
with-itness. It has the authenticity of collard greens boiling on the
stove, the sassy style of the boogaloo in a hip discotheque, the
solidarity signified by "Soul Brother" scrawled on a ghetto storefront.

But what is soul? "It's like electricity —we don't really know what it
is," says Singer Ray Charles. "But it's a force that can light a room."
The force...